Over the past half-decade I’ve written extensively about web archiving, including why we need to understand what’s in our massive archives of the web, whether our archives are failing to capture the modern and social web, the need for archives to modernize their technology infrastructures and, perhaps most intriguingly for the world of “big data,” how archives can make their petabytes of holdings available for research. What might it look like if the world’s web archives opened up their collections for academic research, making hundreds of billions of web objects totaling tens of petabytes and stretching back to the founding…

News flashes and sound bites are constantly calling our attention to the latest hacks or threats to our cybersecurity that seem to be filling our social media news feeds and television reporting circuits. While there are plenty of bad actors out there hell bent on doing us harm, symbiotically living in the digital ethers and layers that make up the vast web, there are companies and organizations working in the background to protect and remediate any potential disasters. Some of these online threats pose significant harm to our lives, our businesses and our finances. Some of them are easy to…

Google has officially announced that it is opening an AI center in Beijing, China. The confirmation comes after months of speculation fueled by a major push to hire AI talent inside the country. Google’s search engine is blocked in China, but the company still has hundreds of staff in China which work on its international services. In reference to that workforce, Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt has said the company “never left” China, and it makes sense that Google wouldn’t want to ignore China’s deep and growing AI talent pool, which has been hailed by experts that include former Google China…

Mozilla countersues and says that poor Yahoo search quality caused Firefox to lose market share. Roughly three years ago, Yahoo and Mozilla announced that Yahoo would be the default search engine on Firefox in the US. That relationship ended early when Mozilla released the much-improved Firefox Quantum browser last month, with Google as the default search provider. Now, Yahoo’s parent company, Oath (Verizon), is suing Mozilla for breach of contract. Oath says that Mozilla “terminated a long-term strategic agreement with Yahoo” on November 10. Yahoo adds that prior to filing suit, it “demanded that Mozilla take immediate steps to cure…

In the age of digital journalism, developing advanced online search skills is crucial to professional success. They can open vast worlds of relevant data and information that can make reporters both more efficient and more knowledgeable. There are many search engines to choose from and all have different ways of prioritizing search results. Google is one of the leaders in this area, and provides a variety of tools that can be helpful for instructors teaching students advanced techniques, or just the basics. Related... Guide To Better Google Search Techniques Tips for journalists using Google Search Google Search Techniques and Tricks…

Using the internet makes people happier, especially seniors and those with health problems that limit their ability to fully take part in social life, says a study in Computers in Human Behavior. The issue: A generation after the internet began appearing widely in homes and offices, it is not unusual to hear people ask if near-constant access to the web has made us happier. Research on the association between internet use and happiness have been ambiguous. Some have found that the connectivity empowers people. A 2014 study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior notes that excessive time spent…

Google search is usually used in it’s non-advance form, just putting the keyword in box and hit enter. After that Google does rest of the magic. You might have heard the most polite google user, the sweet Nan who is putting “Thank you” and “please” in every google searches. Google even praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches. Luckily there is still faster and advance way of getting your search done without being too polite with Google. There are advance tips, tricks and technique in google which can be used to achieve the custom or filtered searches in google. As in…

Bitcoin's rise could help lead to the creation of a so-called "decentralized internet," according to a venture capitalist Decentralized internet is the idea that the web is run across a number of machines that are owned by regular users rather than owned in a central place like a server This could ultimately reduced the power of tech giants, the VC said Bitcoin's rise could help lead to the creation of a so-called "decentralized internet" that could take power away from large technology firms, two venture capitalists told CNBC on Thursday. The internet works thanks to large centralized services such as…

HIGHLIGHTS Google Search finds quality of newsy content algorithmically Search results to omit fake news through improved ranking signals India marks 2x growth in daily active search users on Google Google Search already receive some artificial intelligence (AI) tweaks to enhance user experience. But with the swift growth of inferior-quality content, Google is now in the process of improving the quality of its search results. VP of Engineering Shashidhar Thakur on the sidelines of Google for India 2017 on Tuesday stated that Google is making continuous efforts to cut down on the amount of fake news content listed on its…

These and many other insights are from Dresner Advisory Services’ 2017 Edition IoT Intelligence Wisdom of Crowds Series study. The study defines IoT as the network of physical objects, or "things," embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to enable objects to collect and exchange data. The study examines key related technologies such as location intelligence, end-user data preparation, cloud computing, advanced and predictive analytics, and big data analytics. Please see page 11 of the study for details regarding the methodology. For an excellent overview of Internet of Things (IoT) predictions for 2018, please see Gil Press' post, 10 Predictions…